Haiti Rocket Stoves

Haiti stoves

Haiti rocket stovesBob Fairchild [email protected] 2012

School cafeteria kitchen

School cafeteria stoves

Three stone school cafeteria stoves

Crude rocket prototype

Firebox and throat of firebrick and insulating firebrick. Cement and vermiculite mortar for insulating shell.

Concrete fill

Looking into firebox

Rotary skirt template layout

Forming the skirt

Finished

With cookpot

Improved school rocket workshop

The hard core

Hard firebrick floor, back wall, and pot supportsInsulating firebrick firebox and throat

Insulating layer form

Split 30 gallon drum with hinges. Pull hinge pins to split form for removal

Ready for insulating layer

Insulating layer cement and perlite concrete

With insulating castable refractory skirt

Proud masons

New stoves in action

Lunch time!

Household rocket hard core

Wired, wedged and ready to pour

Insulating layer

Cement and perlite

Skirt form layout

Insulating castable refactory skirt

With pot and channel